#127 Text output

[Philip Kendall]

The attached code (which is nothing more than proof of concept code) provides ncurses text output for Fuse.

At the moment, this is a great big ugly hack arbitrarily shoehorned into the middle of the GTK+ UI, but there you go. I never said it was pretty.

What's the point of this? A blind user e-mailed WoS today, asking if it would be possible to use his screen-reader with Spectrum games. At the moment, I'm guessing the answer would be "no" (he uses a screen reader, and I'm guessing these hook into the Windows drawing libraries, rather than doing full OCR), but a refined version of this patch may allow it to be possible.

[Philip Kendall]

alpha ncurses output

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Second version of the patch attached. Unfortunately, not as successful as I'd like it to me: almost every game doesn't work for one reason or another. The only bright spot is that the Level 9 games do work...
File Added: ncurses2.diff

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Second version of ncurses output

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Third version: bit of a rework here :-) ncurses doesn't have the level of keyboard handling we need (it gives only keypresses, not key up/down events, and can't report Shift being pressed on its own), so... rework this to use GTK+. No change to the actual OCR code, except we now get copyright and sterling symbols out properly.

To apply this patch, you'll first have to copy your ui/gtk directory to ui/gtk-ocr, and then compile with the --with-ocr option.

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GTK+ version of OCR patch

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Improved version of GTK+ OCR patch

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